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| - UK and Commonwealth OTL troop numbers in WW1. During the war the British Empire and Dominions raised a total of 8,904,467 men for military service. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html">http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html</a> There were 6-7 million British soldiers who served in WWI <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_British_soldiers_fought_in_World_War_One,">http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_British_soldiers_fought_in_World_War_One,</a> 200,000-208,500 Irish <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/irish-soldiers-who-fought-for-britain">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/05/irish-soldiers-who-fought-for-britain</a> Empire troops included, 1.27 million Indians <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/21/found-translation-indias-first-world-war,">http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/21/found-translation-indias-first-world-war,</a> 14,785 West Africans (mostly Blacks) <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page12.shtml,">http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page12.shtml,</a> 67,000 S. Africans (including 6,000+ blacks) <a href="http://www.1914-1918.net/south_africa.html,">http://www.1914-1918.net/south_africa.html,</a> the Dominion of Canada sent over 625,000 men and several thousand women <a href="http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/young/e1106ce/findley/Canada/Canada.htm,">http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/engl/young/e1106ce/findley/Canada/Canada.htm,</a> About 100,000 New Zealanders were sent overseas to fight in France, Belgium, Egypt and other places; <a href="http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1833,">http://search.ancestry.com.au/search/db.aspx?dbid=1833,</a> over 6,000 men enlisted in the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War <a href="http://www.therooms.ca/regiment/part3_database.asp">http://www.therooms.ca/regiment/part3_database.asp</a> and 416, 809 Australians enlisted for service in the First World War https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/enlistment/ww1/.
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